A Vellayan is the Executive Chairman of the Murugappa Corporate Board. He is the Chairman of EID Parry (India) Limited and Coromandel International Ltd. He is also on the board of Kanoria Chemicals Ltd. He holds a diploma in Industrial Administration from the University of Aston, UK and a master’s degree in Business Studies from the University of Warwick Business School, UK

M M Murugappan is the Vice Chairman of the Murugappa Corporate Board. He is the Chairman of Tube Investments of India Ltd, Carborundum Universal Ltd, Wendt India Ltd, and Murugappa Morgan Thermal Ceramics Ltd. He serves as a Trustee of the AMM Foundation and the Correspondent of the Murugappa Polytechnic College. He is also on the board of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., Mumbai and Infotech Enterprises Ltd., Hyderabad. He is a Member on the Board of Governors, IIT, Madras. He holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, USA.

N Srinivasan is the Director-Finance of the Murugappa Corporate Board. He is a chartered accountant and company secretary with over 25 years of experience in the areas of Corporate Finance, Legal, Projects and General Management. He is a Director on the Boards of Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd, Tube Investments of India Ltd, Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company Ltd and few other Group Companies. Earlier, he was the CFO of Carborundum Universal Ltd and was associated with corporate like BHEL and Thiru Arooran Sugars Ltd.

Ramesh K B Menon took charge as Director-HR of the Murugappa Group on 1st July, 2013. He is a science graduate from Jai Hind College, Mumbai and has completed his post graduation from XLRI Jamshedpur. Ramesh has had a long (over twenty six years) and distinguished career with Madura Coats, where he has handled various assignments in India and has also been responsible for international locations, and brings with him considerable depth as well as width of experience. Prior to joining the Murugappa Group, he was the Director-HR of Coats, South Asia.

V Ravichandran is the Lead Director -
Fertiliser and Sugar of the Murugappa Corporate Board.
He is an Engineering Graduate with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is also a Cost Accountant and a Company Secretary. After a brief stint with Ashok Leyland, he joined the Group in Oct 1985 in EID Parry. Ravichandran served with distinction in the Finance function of EID Parry, in the Farm Inputs Division (FIND), in Corporate and in businesses such as Confectionery. He took up a general management role as GM-Pesticides in 1994. In 2003, with the merger of FIND and Coromandel Fertilisers Ltd (CFL) he moved to CFL as Vice President – FIND. He was promoted as Wholetime Director in 2004 and took over as Managing Director of the company in 2006.

Venkatraman Thyagarajan is the non-executive External Director
of the Murugappa Corporate Board. He is the Vice Chairman
of GlaxoSmithKline, India and the Senior Vice President and
Regional Director of GlaxoSmithKline, Asia Pacific. Prior
to this role, he was the Vice President of South Asia since
2001. In his tenure of over 36 years with the company, he
has held numerous senior positions throughout his career.
He is also an independent director of Tata Consultancy Services
Limited and chairs PHRMA for Asia. He has a B.Tech degree
in Electrical Engineering and is an alumnus of Indian Institute
of Management  Ahmedabad.

Sridar Iyengar is a non executive External Director of the Murugappa Group Corporate Board.

Prior to this, Sridar was CEO (later Partner) of KPMG LLP, and was instrumental in setting up KPMG’s operations in India. A founding charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), he has been President of both the Silicon Valley and Global branches of the group. He remains active with TiE India. He is also involved in the American India Foundation and the Foundation for Democratic Reforms in India. Sridar has spent 35 years in global businesses, and brings to the Board his rich international experience. He serves on the Boards of Infosys Technologies, ICICI Bank, and Rediff.com, among other companies in the U.S. and India. He holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce (Honours) from the University of Calcutta, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Ishaat Hussain is a non executive External Director of the Murugappa Group Corporate Board.

He served as the Finance Director of Tata Sons from July 2000. After retiring from that position, he continues as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Tata Sons. He is the Chairman of Tata AIA Life Insurance Company, Voltas and Tata Sky. He is also a Director of several Tata companies, including Tata Industries, TCS and Tata Steel. He is also the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Committee on Disclosures and Accounting. Prior to joining Tata Sons in 1999, he was Senior Vice President and Executive Director – Finance at Tata Steel for almost 10 years. He joined the Board of Indian Tube Company (a Tata Steel associate company) in 1981, and moved to Tata Steel in 1983, after Indian Tube was merged with Tata Steel.

A Chartered Accountant from England and Wales, Ishaat Hussain attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.